Race

The author, interviews some South Africans of different hues, about the idea of race, what it has meant to them and how they envision a future South Africa, steeped as the country and its people are in a highly charged and often unacknowledged world of racial sensitivity. Amongst the interviewees are Naledi Pandor, Minister of Education; Wilmot James, executive director of the African Genome Education Institute; Rhoda Kadalie, journalist and human rights activist; Melanie Verwoerd, former South African ambassador to Ireland; Phatekile Holomisa, president of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa); and Carel Boshoff, the founder of Orania, an Afrikaner homeland established in 1991 in the Northern Cape.

"Ryland Fisher has boldly taken on an issue that is as elusive as it is daunting. In characteristic fashion, Ryland launches head-on into the complexity of the matter" --Nathan McCall, author, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, "This book is but a starting point for a much-needed discussion on race. Read it, and let's start talking." --Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus

Ryland Fisher is the former editor of the Cape Times and an assistant editor at the Sunday Times. In 2006 he was given the Award of Appreciation for Print Media, in recognition of his work One City, Many Cultures. He is the author of Making the Media Work for You.

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